NetBeans Platform

Petr SuchomelDavid Šimonek

Miloš KleintSun Microsystems

Certified Engineer Course

Certified Agenda

• Certified Course• A Bit of History• Why NetBeans Platform?• “Hello World” Demo• Tour around the APIs

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Certified NetBeans Course

• Overview of the platform APIs> general tour

• Your homework project> code on top of or for NetBeans> product quality code> http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansCertifiedEngineerCourse

• Diploma> for the best ones

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NBstory : 1997-2007

• NetBeans vs. Xelfi• Students vs. Engineers• Platform vs. IDE• NetBeans vs. Sun• Prague vs. rest of the world• Open Source vs. Corporation

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Why NetBeans Platform?

• Did you ever have that great idea...?

Maintaining the framework takes a lot of my time :(

Let's create our

own framework!

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Why NetBeans Platform?

Don't reinvent

the wheel!

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Nuance V-Builder – VoiceXML

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Fiorano Studio: Lego Blocks for SOA

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Nokia NetAct: Mobile Network Mgr

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Sketsa SVG Editor

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AIOTrade

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NetBeans IDE: Java Development

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Examples – JCae - CAD

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Visual VM

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TidalWave BlueMarine: Photo Manager

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Instant JChem

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Examples – StudioSL (oil flow)

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And...

What about your application?

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Why NetBeans Platform?

• You will save time & money• You will benefit from platform updates• Your application will:

> become modular> become updatable> become webstartable> look more professional> work on all platforms> be able to access Java EE backends

• You will work on features that matter!

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Why NetBeans?

• Don't reinvent the wheel• Reuse code from NetBeans Platform• Take advantage of 3rd party libraries• Build on top of Swing• Make your application modular• Focus on domain knowledge• Don't let your competition figure this

out before you!

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Resources

• http://platform.netbeans.org• dev@openide.netbeans.org• http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan• NetBeans platform book:

> For NetBeans 5.5 & 6.0> Covers the concepts & APIs

http://safari.oreilly.com/9780132354806

DEMO•“Hello World” Application